Bisulfide

1. WRITE IN ALL CAPITALS.

People love getting yelled at. They never get enough verbal abuse from their family, coworkers, and fellow commuters. So, go ahead SHOUT AT THEM. Hey, if you’re lucky, maybe they’ll return the favor.

2. Include your URL (website
address) from the very beginning.

While you’re at it, go ahead and tell them what they’re getting for Christmas and how all the magic tricks are done. No one likes surprises or suspense. Don’t give them any mystery or let any excitement build. What do you think this is supposed to be, interesting or something??

3. Write long, wordy paragraphs.

You want to tell them everything you possibly can and it should all be in one looooong paragraph. This is the same principle that applies to first dates. Tell them everything about you all in one breath. No letting little things come out over time. No surprises or explanations. Bonus points if you can get them to go cross eyed while trying to read it.

4. Overdo the personalization feature.

Everyone loves to hear their own name. Make sure you include it in every sentence. This way, they know it was done manually and not by a computer program. Because surely those computer programs have limits of say 20 or 30 names throughout the email.

5. Focus on yourself and not your prospect.

Let them know your wants, needs, and desires. Who cares about them? I mean, jeez, wasn’t putting their name in the email enough! Selfish, selfish, selfish….

6. Stop Emailing them if you get no response.

Six or seven emails is plenty to send to someone. Just because you still have their address and they haven’t opted out yet, they’re obviously not interested. Besides, you don’t have time to email them. You’re going to get that new computer you’ve been getting info on for about a year now. You’ve finally decided to buy it. There seems to be some irony here but you just can’t put your finger on it.

7. Don’t have a sense of humor.

No laughs, no stress relief measures, no wedgies. This is a business. Imagine what would happen if you allowed it to be fun!

By: Anne Ahira
Editor The BEST Affiliate Newsletter
http://www.thebestaffiliate.com

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If you’re like me, there are certain types of email that you send out regularly that follow a set form (client follow up notes, meeting notes, email article submission, etc). These can be irritating to have to recreate from scratch every time, but the tried and true method of creating a seperate document-file template, then sending that out as an attachment, may not always be appropriate. For example, email-based article submissions generally accept only plain text in-message formatting and require rigorous adherence to detailed submission guidelines involving the placement of bylines, the structure and length of the article body and the arrangement and length of bio-boxes and other inclusions – any deviation from which will result in a refusal of submission. Aggravatingly enough, these submission requirements are often so completely different from one submission site to another that it is difficult if not impossible to keep them straight without an entire set of templates.

To get around these and other problems, consider using the signature option in your emailer program to create individual email “signatures templates” for these commonly sent and repetitive emails. Using the above example of an email article submission email, I might create a “signature template” that looks something like this:

Title
Byline

Body (single spaced, 60-65 characters per line, no html)

Bio-box (no more that 3 sentences, no more than 2 links)

For a client follow-up or team meeting follow-up email, it might look something like this:

Client (or team member) Name
Date of Meeting

Summary of Meeting

Comments

Action Steps

Next Meeting Agenda

Once the “signature template” is complete, simply save it under a descriptive name (“articles-to-go submission” or “client meeting”) and it’s ready to use next time you’re ready to send an email. Just insert the signature, then type around or over the contents as appropriate. Keep in mind, also, that you can add more than one signature to an email in most emailer programs, so using one of the above “signature templates” does not preclude your adding a standard business signature at the end of the email, as you would normal do.

I’m sure that if you think creatively and look at the emails you send out on a regular basis, you’ll find many examples for which a simple “signature template” can save you time, trouble and annoyance. How many ways can you think of to use this time-saving trick?

(c) Soni Pitts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim “soul proprietorship” in their lives and to begin living the life their Creator always intended for them.

She is the author of the free e-book “50 Ways To Reach Your Goals” and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.

I sent my e-zine out last week and I received a copy of it back. It had been forwarded to me by a subscriber. In the subject line was a two word sentence; since most publications and websites frown upon vulgarity, obscenity, and profanity, I have spared you the exact wording. Be assured, however, that Miss Manners would definitely not approve.

It is understandable the frustration that people feel when they are inundated with unsolicited commercial e-mail. I myself get more than my fair share.

Despite my Internet Service Provider (ISP) enabling a spam filter and in spite of configuring my own e-mail program filters, I still get spam.

However, the situation with my subscriber is different. He opted in and confirmed his subscription. I use an outside service to handle my mailing lists, in part, to protect myself from false spam complaints.

There are a number of possibilities here. Perhaps my dear subscriber forgot that he subscribed and honestly believed that he received spam.

Another possibility is that he didn’t enjoy the content. The correct response when someone offers you something you don’t want is “No, thank you” not “Expletive deleted”.

If you are offered dessert after dinner by your host and you don’t want any, simply say “No, thanks.” If you accept one piece of pie and then you’re offered another, you may either accept or decline.

My subscriber could simply have unsubscribed. Instead, he retaliated (either because he believes I’m spamming him or he doesn’t like the newsletter).

He said “yes” when he subscribed; he can always say “no” by unsubscribing. Again, “No, thank you” not “Expletive deleted”.

Related to this rudeness is the ignorance some America Online, Inc. (AOL) subscribers show. By ignorance, I mean that they may not even realize they are doing anything wrong when they report e-mail they don’t like as spam.

AOL makes it very easy for their subscribers to report spam. I would say they make it too easy.

Just click the button “Report Spam”. Unfortunately, there is no notation near that button that says “If you subscribed, just unsubscribe.” No, simply “Report Spam.”

And they do. Rather than unsubscribe, some AOL subscribers will report your e-zine as spam. They opted in and subscribed. They confirmed their subscription by e-mail. Their name, e-mail address, IP address, and date and time of subscribing have all been recorded. But, they are reporting you as a spammer.

This, to me, goes beyond rude, as it could affect the reputation and livelihood of the one being reported.

I wish I could say that receiving obscenities or threats by e-mail is rare. Sadly, this is not the first time for me.

Among the many messages I receive are some that say that the e-mail I tried to send (from some strange or nonsensical name at my domain) was undeliverable or blocked and is being returned to me. Of course, I never sent that e-mail in the first place.

Occasionally, I receive rude (sometimes threatening) e-mails from people who thought I sent them some of these spoofed e-mails. This is the equivalent of swearing at and threatening someone who you believe allowed his dog to defecate on your lawn. The only problem is that the man doesn’t have a dog.

Again, I sympathize with those who are irritated by spam. I just wish they would direct their indignation at the spammers instead of me. In fact, Miss Manners would have reminded us all that there is never any excuse for rudeness.

J. Stephen Pope, President of Pope Consulting Inc., has been helping clients to earn maximum business profits for over twenty-five years. To learn more about autoresponder services and other profitable Work at Home Small Business Ideas, visit: www.yenommarketinginc.com/autoresponders.html

The virus known as influenza has been around for thousands of
years. Yet, no one on the face of the earth has ever been able
to beat or destroy this damaging virus. This virus has become
unstoppable, and has stood the test of time. Now what does this
have to do with building your email list?

Well building your email list should have the same
characteristics and dynamics of the influenza virus. What makes
the flu virus so unstoppable is its ability to produce an
unlimited number of new strands every year. This virus
constantly mutates and forms new strands, making it hard for
researchers to counteract its destruction.

Your list building efforts should also have this constantly
changing aspect to it. In the same way the flu virus
constantly makes new strands, you also want to consistently make
new viral implementations to your list building efforts that
will gradually increase the growth and momentum of your list
overtime. These little small viral implementations will make the
growth of your email list unstoppable.

The viral list building implementations should include any
method, strategy, or technique that has the power to
exponentially grow your email list just from others passing your
information or link around. Making new viral implementations
will actually build an automatic list building machine, making
your list appear as if it has a life of its own! Your list will
actually become a living, breathing, cyber organism that has the
goal of conquering as much of its niche as it can! It will
function as an actual flu virus.

Now listed below are a couple of ways you can make viral
implementations to your list building efforts. Consider each of
these new implementations as viral strands, where if one strand
is conquered, the others are still actively and virally working
for you. You want to create as many of these viral strands of
marketing as you can. Make sure you implement each of these
methods below into your list building campaign.

Method #1: Offer A Free Product Download

Offering a free product download is a powerful way to get your
marketing message out. You can easily create a free report
within your niche that others can easily pass around . Within
the report are links to your newsletter or ezine opt in landing
page.

You can also create free software to give away. This actually
works a little better than giving away a free ebook or report.

Method #2: Have JV Partners And Affiliates Market The Free
Product

Next, you should supercharge method #1 by having jv partners and
affiliates pass around your free product. One way you can do
this is by branding the free product with a link that will make
your affiliates, and your jv partners commissions. This is known
as an affiliate program, and it is one of the most powerful
forms of viral marketing right now!

If you are looking for sure online marketing success, I highly
recommend that you start an affiliate program in your particular
niche within the next 7 days. If you do not have a product yet,
hire ghostwriters from Elance to create a product for you. Set
up your affiliate program, and use your affiliates to virally
pass around a free product or report that will advertise your
product, ezine or newsletter.

This one method can literally skyrocket the size of your list in
days!

Method #3: Give Master Resell Rights

Master resell rights is when an individual has the rights to
sell your product and earn 100% of all the income generated. You
can also give the person who bought your resell rights, the
opportunity to establish his or her own affiliate program.
Therefore, using this method will create a means for his
affiliates to market your products or newsletter list. Imagine
having thousands of affiliates actively marketing your
newsletter or ezine list! Can you just imagine the results!

So are you beginning to see the viral power of all this?

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